Terra Magazine – Sylvia Yamada

OSU zoologist Sylvia Yamada has been tracking European green crabs on the Oregon coast for more than two decades. (Photo: Jen Pywell)

By Nick Houtman

Nick Houtman is director of research communications at OSU and edits Terra, a world of research and creativity at Oregon State University. He has experience in weekly and daily print journalism and university science writing. A native Californian, he lived in Wisconsin and Maine before arriving in Corvallis in 2005.